The teenager was mowed by a car, after the Morocco-France match on Wednesday. For forty-eight hours, the Mosson district was plagued by violence, and calm calls are multiplying.
by Anne Devailly (Montpellier, correspondent)
Morocco plays the little final of the World Cup on Saturday December 17 afternoon, but whatever the result, the party will probably not be there at the Mosson, where the inhabitants aspire to this that the tension of the last three days has been going out. It is in this popular district of the northwest of Montpellier, where the Franco-Moroccans are numerous and supported, for the most part, the football team of Morocco against France, Wednesday December 14, that the young Aymen, 14, mowed by a car at the end of the match.
Regardless of the defeat, everyone had come down to the street to find themselves at a usual rallying point. But the party turned into drama: around twenty young people saw a French flag in a car and tried to seize it. The driver sought to get out of the group, turned around through the tram rails. By the way, he deadly injured the teenager. The police are actively looking for the driver who, for the moment, remains which is not found, even if the prefect wanted to report by press release, Thursday at the end of the day, that “the investigation progresses quickly”.
During the following forty -eight hours, the district was plagued by violence opposing young people in the Maghreb community – more than 90 % of the inhabitants of the neighborhood, essentially Moroccan or Franco -Moroccans – and that of the Travelers , the community to which the flight driver would belong. The situation degenerated on Thursday: punitive expedition at the foot of the buildings where people from the travel community are located, pebbles, broken windows, burnt garbage trash, tobacco passage from a young man from the community without his involvement being established in what happened.
the call of calm of Said, the brother of Aymen
Calls for calm then came from everywhere, Thursday at the end of the day and Friday: the young family, the Imam during Friday prayer which brings together more than two thousand people, the gypsy community, the prefect, Who received representatives from this community and has announced a significant deployment of police in the neighborhood. The latter, arrived on Friday, were still present at night, which was calm.
Finally, the most worn voice is probably that of Said, the big brother of Aymen, who first spoke at the invitation of the imam of the mosque, then spoke to the young , with a megaphone, to call them calm when they wanted to meet on Friday. “I think he played a considerable role, explains a resident of the neighborhood. Was listened to, which is good news in a neighborhood where it is difficult today to find words that young people agree to hear . “
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